skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to look at version 1.0 of a shell written by a college sophomore in his spare time that went on to become a decent success, see the 1.0 source code for zsh:
https://github.com/llua/zsh-1.0

What stands out in reading the 1.0 remarks is that the person writing it clearly cared about shells as an everyday user of them.
> Woodward writes that Biden's national security team at one point believed there was a real threat, a 50 per cent chance, that Putin would use nuclear weapons in Ukraine.

~ https://www.9news.com.au/world/new-book-reveals-candid-behin...

Hopefully they are exaggerating for effect. A strategy of actively probing for Russia's breaking point is ruinously stupid; when you find it the odds are pretty good that it will be because they are at the point where they are willing to go nuclear. They might try some sort of escalate-to-de-escalate strike on NATO but there must be a pretty decent chance that would just escalate and the Russian command would be aware of that.

Not lobbing missiles in to Russia is an entirely reasonable red line. We got all the way through the Afghan war and the Iraq war without anyone launching missiles into the US and that restraint didn't seem to cause any long term problems. Extending similar courtesies to Russia is appropriate.
Johnson–Lindenstrauss Lemma
At some point I'd intimate that if these ships keep "accidentally" destroying undersea installations, then I'd start "accidentally" sinking them.

Enough is enough, screw Russia
Oof. What's next? Announcing what they see? What items are around them and how they could interact with them (or not)?

Like "Protagonist: I walked north and I entered a mysterious room, full of different bottles. They don't look like I could use them, but maybe I should take one with me?"
I don't think Boeing need more ideas to cut costs and quality in engineering right now...
The article seems to go with the premise that abstractions are most often carelessly introduced when there is an obvious alternative that is simpler and more performant.

Yes, abstractions have a cost that will accumulate as they are layered.

But simple elegant solutions are not free. They are hard to come with, so they often need large amount of dedication ahead of any coding. And as long as we don't deliver anything, we have no clue what actual requirements we miss in our assumptions.

The road to reach the nice simple solutions is more often than not to go through some some clunky ugly solutions.

So rather than to conclude with "before running to abstraction think wisely", I would rather recommend "run, and once you'll have some idea of what was the uncharted territory like, think about how to make it more practical for future walks."
Very interesting, nobody mentioned this to me before. I'll try and see if there's a correlation in my case. Thanks!
Not all DMM have probe small enough to connect to the lane. If it's even possible.
What's more, you need to know where to put it, which can be daunting without the proper knowledge. Switching hardware is easier, faster and often the best solution in those case.

Finding hardware fault is hard. Tracing it is even harder.
Tucker Carlson Interviewed Vladimir Putin
The use of Virtual Machine as in the article is old and well established in computer science. E.g in the LLVM (low-level virtual machine) compiler backend.

What do you mean with “in this context”? The article is clearly using the term in the same sense as JVM and LLVM.

(Also your relationship with you boss sounds pretty toxic. If there is ambiguity in the terminolgy why don’t you just ask a clarifying question? Many words can have multiple meanings.)
Amazing logic. We keep poking this bear and it hasn't yet stirred. Let's poke it even harder. What could go wrong.
>Some of them suffered minor damage is not the same as you claiming it was just incidents involving medical personnel.

Source for one inflated number (742) contained incidents with individual medics along with damaged facilities, the source that you provided next includes buildings with broken windows.

>I really don't care what you discard or not.

That's your right, but I cared to explain why "Dude I am from Ukraine" and numbers coming solely from the Ukrainian government aren't trustworthy.

>Russia is an expansionist colonial empire trying to retake it's former colonies by any means including force.

That's a very odd use of the word 'colony'. Where have you seen a colony where its metropole developed aerospace and shipbuilding industry, for example?
It's an awesome contingency. If the island falls, they can destroy/impair the local infrastructure, and reconstitute it in the US. Destroy in this context does not mean mass physical destruction. It is a combination of removal of keys and select components. The message being you can have the island but not the business.
With all respect to luminaries: this will not stand up. This will be treated harshly by history.

I’m nobody but I’m going to stand up to Terence Tao and Scott Aarinson: you’re wrong or bought or both.

This is a detour and I want to make clear to history what side I was on.
Ukraine has the right to defend itself against the Russian invasion. That's not nationalist. It is basic survival. Ukraine cannot be asked to refrain from defending itself in order to secure that Germany has cheap energy import and an export market for its old combustion engine cars.

German economy is facing difficulties because of a number of reasons:

- Closing all nuclear power plants

- Relying on Russian natural gas

- Relying on export to Russia and China

- Being too slow to transition its auto industry to EVs

- A number of other factors
At least we know Netflix first party content is not for anyone who wants a good watch. But rather for background noise and moving pictures.
That's partly true, but on the other hand less intensive, less industrialized food production will end up with safer food. The apple or tomato from your grandma's backyard in Eastern Europe will have less chemicals than the one grown in the Dutch monoculture farm.
I'd call that "endumbification". Netflix already lost giant chunks of its catalog as everyone and their dog now wants/has their own streaming shop (a worse situation than with cable TV now...), and it seems like they're going completely off the rails...
Might not be particularly expedient to be.
>Netflix execs have been telling their screenwriters to have characters “announce what they’re doing” so that viewers who have a program on in the background can follow along without having to miss plot strands.

That's the critical bit of context, this is essentially radio you have on in the background while you do whatever.
How else do you propose that the web sites you visit should fund their work and infrastructure?
It’s not a spy ship.

It’s a ship, that was used for spying. Not a special ship built for spying.

So it’s just an asset at sea that can be covertly used and disposed if discovered.

It’s a burner, something to use and discard when it’s no longer useful.

The spy gear is on another ship and the anchor trick can be played again
Show HN: Ghostty Config Generator
Exactly this when I said in another comment I want both. The old physical protection of UV light and verify authenticity the old fashioned way. It doesn't even need a stamp but a physical thing that prove my identity I can own. Not another number in the system.

This is the same thing I am against a cashless society where the society no longer accept physical cash. And in 2012, and later 2014 when Apple Pay was introduced all the way to 2017, 99% of HN were in support of getting rid of physical cash.
some people in the suitable places are probably already thinking that way - just few days ago a Russian military cargo ship suddenly had explosion and sank in Mediterranean

https://en.defence-ua.com/news/sunken_russian_ship_ursa_majo...

"As for the equipment on board, the Navy spokesman noted that it was "quite expensive, sophisticated, foreign-made, and that russians do not do not produce such items."

"To understand the importance of this equipment is I remind you that for six months they were unable to load Kalibr missiles in Novorossiysk due to the lack of such equipment," Pletenchuk emphasized."
> I wonder if it's possible to have a terminal always loaded so that my keybinding for creating a terminal would actually: move terminal in current workspace, focus it, then spawn another invisible terminal in the background.

Use rxvt-unicode or another terminal that has a client/server mode. Start up a server in the background on boot or login (e.g. as a systemd user service), and make your keybind launch a new client process. Should be pretty much instant.
Taxi drivers often have a shady side gig in being a police informer, drug dealer etc. Also practically all valuables which clients forget become theirs.
It's very easy for us to doubt these things because they suspiciously and conveniently fit the "anti-russia" narrative. From there, a simple belief in the corruptibility and money-influence in media makes us question the story. And no amount of "oh it's hard to get hundreds of people to maintain a conspiracy" will reign it back.

And I'm not a paid shill. The above is just a reality of the media landscape and a lot of people's mistrust in it and of the west in general.
Exactly the opposite of the experience I am looking for, with a video projector, in the dark.

I guess netflix is really competing against youtube and twitch here.
meh, I rarely have electronics fail these days. Whatever corners designers are cutting seem perfectly adequate to be cut to make stuff affordable.
un-paywall version: https://archive.md/ZMyCe
Many switch mode power supplies will increase the current draw if the voltage drops, that's why many of them will work on both 120 and 248V, while old school power supplies need a manual switch. I had a brownout once and thought my washing machine was broken because that was the only thing that stopped working (Until evening when I switched on the lights. That was back in the days of incandescents, oddly though led lights still dim with lower power, I don't know how they do voltage conversion).

We have so many cheap power supplies in our houses that it would not surprise me if at least some become unsafe if the source voltage drops too low. Being unsafe with only a slight drop is weird though.
it's for training AI.... easier done that way, I think
Inadvertently, this will also help AI training a ton! But some Execs didn’t even see that
Why not? It's a REAL person solving a REAL problem for himself. Why is that "invalid data"?

You prefer studies with 100 people that generate just noise because people are so different?
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Russia has shown time and time again that they respond to appeasement with escalation and are only deterred by decisive actions.
Was the Iraq war a joint war of the US and Ukraine against Iraq? [0] If you say it was, then okay, the exercise was joint too.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_involvement_in_the_I...
Nah let's appease russia as we know so well appeasement leads to deescalation
Penrose Mazes (2020)
Seriously, confiscate the ship, charge everyone on board with espionage, give maximum jail sentence, and close all maritime corridors going through NATO territory for Russia. Putin always tests for a response, and if there is none, he doubles down.

Russia violated Turkey’s airspace only once, the jet was shot down immediately, and, save to say, Putin was on the phone with Ankara to prevent an all out escalation with a NATO member that can trigger article 5 at any time for self defense after an apparent aggression. Turned out, no more airspace violations happened again.

As long as the West fails to respond with strength, Putin will never stop.
It’s funny how all the dystopian predictions of supposed “conspiracy theorists” (a term graciously coined by the ever helpful CIA, a bastion of freedom for all) seem to always come to fruition.

It basically is a prison planet already, the remaining aspects of the humanity of it are just being automated out slowly but surely. The worst tyrannical dictatorships in history could not have even dreamt of the current state of things in their wildest dreams, and we are all racing at breakneck speed towards a hell of total domination by sadistic tyrants.
Thanks, I managed to enable the shader, I think the glsl path needs to be absolute, it doesn't work starting with ~ (tilde).
This is done on purpose, so you can rename the file to make sure it's polyglot.
The Great Wealth Transfer
Reverse osmosis completely removes heavy metals from water. I’ll take my chances with microplastic over lead.
https://archive.ph/mF3b9
They're called flight cases :)
> You think it's easier to require setting up a third party account, adding your card to it, getting the card authorised, and doing the payment that way, with fees.

- You don't have to setup an account

- You don't have to get the card authorised (I don't know what this means)

- Adding your card numbers in takes me 10 seconds, in the case of Paypal, it's already there so no time

- Fee's are minimal, not even worth wondering about

In terms of donation, entering in the amount to donate and clicking submit is yes, easier than going into my bank's website, bringing up the international transfer, and it's asking me for SMS confirmation that I want to do this, and I can't be bothered going further.

edit: I think maybe we are fighting the wrong battle.

You think IBAN is super easy, and maybe in Europe it is.

I'm not in Europe though and neither is the other chap, so maybe the donations are very easy in Europe but not so much out of it.

I've never done an IBAN payment in my life but I've donated thousands and thousands of dollars to loads of places all over the world without issue for years including Ukraine, this is the first time I've seen a place only accepting an IBAN donation, which feels like a friction that is not there for other places.
Sometimes, I like watching the narrated movies meant for the visually impaired. It feels almost like an audiobook. Changing the content to make it more radio-like -- that's not something I'm a fan of. It's the whole "abstraction layers vs. tight coupling", except this time it's content.
"I have found it works surprisingly well for writing mathematical LaTeX, as well as formalizing in Lean; indeed, it assisted in writing this very article by suggesting several sentences as I was writing, many of which I retained or lightly edited for the final version. While the quality of its suggestions is highly variable, it can sometimes display an uncanny level of simulated understanding of the intent of the text."

Tao is one of the few mathematicians who is constantly singing the praises of specifically ChatGPT and now CoPilot. He does not appear to have any issues that his thought processes are logged by servers owned by a multi-billion dollar company.

He never mentions copyright or social issues. He never mentions results other than "writing LaTeX is easier".

Does he have any incentive for promoting OpenAI?
Vite is a fast front end build tool
Biometric databases will be hacked and leaked, criminals will perform cosmetic surgery to assume new identities.

> US drones + US satellites that enable global connectivity of drones was a rather obvious consequence of Starlink ~4 years ago.

One would probaby be safe from the US in Serbia, Transnistria and other non-US friendly places for a while, given enough bribe money. The US won't sneak drones into sovereign airspace without another state's approval even if they're looking for high level targets such as Osama bin Laden, Al Baghdadi, Qassem Soleimani. We are not talking about failed states or states in civil war like Syria, Libya or atates under US assistance like Iraq here.
What happens if you don’t have a “smart phone” or any phone/tracking devices at all?

Are we all getting bar code tattoos and will be prosecuted for not having a barcode tattoo?
I think there's something wrong with your DMM probes if you can't measure the ATX power connector with them.
... arms in a wide shrug ... well, yes, and ... it was always like this, no?

DARPA was defense money, Xerox PARC was corporate money. The one big success I can quickly name that's "pure" is the web from CERN. (Okay I looked up, SMTP, RFC 821 from 1982 submitted by Jon Postel from ISI USC. But emails with the familiar @ were invented at a for-profit company by Ray Tomlinson more than a decade earlier.)

I'm not saying we should just slump into apathy, I'm just trying to point out that many mostly good things came from big corps. (And the usual problem is that they still hold the keys to the kingdom. For example see how hard it is to send mail to MS hosted email inboxes. And of course they hide behind "oh our users choose this aggressive level of filtering".)
What’s your reasoning?

There’s much more honor in being right for the right reason than for a wrong one.
Netflix is going to kill their golden goose. It's already dying slowly, but they really should be just taking more risks.
It's a streaming company run by people who seem to hate movies or tv.
I find it very stressful when watching Netflix because I don't know what is going to happen. Maybe they could include the full story line at the start of the series, so I can read it ahead of time and remove all suspense and surprise.
Interval cameras (checking your speed over a length of road, using ANPR) are very effective at slowing traffic in the UK. Although you still get people in expensive cars driving 20mph faster than others; maybe undeterred by fines, or using false plates.

The system can tell you if there was a runaway truck (at your time and location), so an appeal should be easy for that uncommon situation.
i am doing little more than lamenting the hurdles placed in front of me that i couldn't figure out how to overcome (albeit with a dash of frustrated snark), after having spent north of three hours of my time today. i am not rich, nor well off by many reasonable measures. i rent a small room in a small town, hardly making ends meet, but i simply wanted to donate a couple bucks toward a cause i believe in, out of principle, as i'm not usually a donating type (see bit about renting a small room and barely making ends meet).

i wanted to leave some breadcrumbs for anyone else in a similar situation (that is, trying to donate from U.S., not the bit about wealth) trying to figure out how to make it work, because i sure expended some effort digging it up.

this specific discussion thread is a call to donate and to write here in solidarity in having done so. i may not have successfully donated cold, hard cash, but i'll dare say my pledge of most of my afternoon trying to move mountains in order to send some scratch their way fits in here. it may have barely registered as a drop in the bucket had i been successful, but i believe this is what the thread is about.
Whilst basic, its a critical and valid point. It is being made on a forum where shipping, ships, and related engineering issues are not well known (at all).

It does lead to questions about how backup and failover power work on large ships. Secondary generation? Central batteries? Per device battery failover?
Well said! I have met a few of these codesmells where the actual functioning is hidden behind a bewildering maze of facades, shims, proxies and whatnot.

I guess some has had an irresistible itch to use as many patterns from the GoF book as possible.
We are writing about this like it is something to awe over when it's clearly a war crime. If Russia or China was the one that did this it would be written about completely differently.

Can't wait for this to be made into a movie where the hero is the one that killed innocent civilians. /s
I’m wagering my entire reputation that no LLM, nor any LLM run in a loop, will ever be as intelligent as a precocious child.

The burden rests on OpenAI and the scholars on their payroll to show otherwise.
Sure: Supporting stuff furthers that stuff. If it works for you, there's your incentive.
True, but plots are only half the story. I'd be very grateful if they could give me some sample scenes (ideally automatically, so I don't have to go through the trouble of starting them every single time). I mean, how do people even decide whether a movie might be for them without having first inspected a good portion of it?
I suspect this appeals to two types of audiences. The first being people who play on their phones instead of watching the show. You can blame phone addiction and ADHD type behaviors for this but it feels like a slippery slope of stupidity in the face of good writing/acting as opposed to constant cartoon like action. (the wife and I do it too).

The second set of audience this would appeal to are people with autism. Sitcoms have always done this. Some people really need to be told when to laugh and what people are thinking because they have no ability to read body language, zero empathy, and cannot read the room. Once you encounter it regularly it’s mind blowing and that a significant portion of the population commonly lives with this sort of mental blindness.
I just hope they don't butcher 5th season of Stranger Things, after that they can rot in piss.
Netflix thought they could take on Hollywood and beat them at their own film game. But in the process they realized that it’s not actually a game worth winning, and more importantly, that YouTube and TikTok are their real competition, not Hollywood.

The future of most media is video-based, and I think Netflix probably understands this and is trying to get away from the historical model as movies you watch online and closer to the optimized video ecosystem of YouTube. The latter is more relevant in a world with video-playing devices everywhere.
There is very little good or "main" content these days on Netflix. Every single time without fail whenever I have an urge to watch a specific show or movie, sometimes an old one, it's never available on Netflix. And even if they did have it, they "licensed" it for a year and no longer have it. What good is that for me?

So most of our usage these days of Netflix is just having something playing on the side or background while we go about daily tasks like working or whatever. It's glorified filler that you don't need to pay attention to.

I'm giving it a year maybe and I'm canceling our sub to Netflix. There are better alternatives, and life is too precious to spend worrying about copyright when all copyright holders just want to make me a criminal instead of letting be give them money.
Wait. They’re turning movies into audio books. That’s a good first step.

Next to save bandwidth they’ll drop video and just display text on screen.
Don't worry, they have got the perfect solution for you. That cool series you just heard about but haven't had time to watch yet? It's cancelled. That's it. That's the story. Now you don't even need to watch it!
I don't think their first-party content ever was a golden goose, I feel like it has always been their way to pad space between the good shows they bought from others.
Where do you think government policy comes from? If the people who are smart and wealthy enough to torch half a million dollars on original independent research care more about who's breaking the law rather than what's true, then you have a circular dependency that breaks your system. That's why the law is so crazy and nothing crazy should be taken seriously regardless of how officially important it is.
As I cannot read the article without tapping 'Accept' on the monstrously big cookie pop-up (tapping "Manage Settings" leads to an even bigger pop-up whose presumed buttons are outside of the (non-scrollable) viewport), I'm going to comment without having read TFA, only the comments on here.

I am surprised that no one mentions these extra narrations as providing very valuable audio descriptions for visually impaired users. This in my opinion is a much more important use case, as long as it remains optional, selectable as a separate audio channel for example.
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